Add bdf normaliser (to cope with fontforge output directly, since bdftopcf | pcf2bdf sometimes fails).

3 files changed, 59 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/bdfnorm b/bdfnorm
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..da20e76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bdfnorm
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+
+use strict;
+use POSIX;
+
+our @fbbox;
+our @cbbox;
+
+our $numbytes;
+our $zeroes;
+our $botpad;
+
+$|=1;
+
+while (<>) {
+    if (m/^FONTBOUNDINGBOX\s+([-0-9]+)\s+([-0-9]+)\s+([-0-9]+)\s+([-0-9]+)$/) {
+	die if @fbbox;
+	@fbbox = ($1,$2,$3,$4); # xsz ysz xoff yoff
+	# FONTBOUNDINGBOX 10 20 0 -4
+    } elsif (m/^BBX\s+([-0-9]+)\s+([-0-9]+)\s+([-0-9]+)\s+([-0-9]+)$/) {
+	die unless @fbbox;
+	@cbbox = ($1,$2,$3,$4);
+	print "BBX @fbbox\n";
+	next;
+    } elsif (m/^BITMAP\b/) {
+	die unless @cbbox;
+	$numbytes = ceil($fbbox[0] / 8);
+	$zeroes = ('00' x $numbytes)."\n";
+	$botpad = $cbbox[3] - $fbbox[3];
+	my $toppad = $fbbox[1] - $cbbox[1] - $botpad;
+	print;
+	print $zeroes x $toppad;
+	next;
+    } elsif (m/^ENDCHAR\b/) {
+	die unless defined $zeroes;
+	print $zeroes x $botpad;
+        $zeroes = undef;
+    } elsif (defined $zeroes) {
+	chomp;
+	m/[^0-9A-F]/ and die "$& ?";
+#	print "# $_\n";
+	s/./ unpack "B4", pack "H*", $& /ge;
+#	print "# $_\n";
+	$_ = ("0" x ($cbbox[2] - $fbbox[2])) . $_;
+#	print "# $_\n";
+	s/0+$//;
+#	print "# $_\n";
+	$_ .= "0" x ($numbytes*8 - length);
+#	print "# $_\n";
+	s/.{4}/ unpack "H", pack "B4", $& /ge;
+	$_ .= "\n";
+    }
+    print;
+}
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 55fcd04..3e2a321 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ xfonts-traditional (1.7.2~~iwj) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * An internal error message in printrule is improved slightly.
   * Add debhelper-build-stamp to .gitignore.
   * Permit new foundry names to contain "."s.
+  * Add bdf normaliser (to cope with fontforge output directly, since
+     bdftopcf | pcf2bdf sometimes fails).
 
  -- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>  Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:07:21 +0100
 
diff --git a/mkrules b/mkrules
index d16d6b4..3c5f935 100755
--- a/mkrules
+++ b/mkrules
@@ -43,9 +43,9 @@ while read keyword rest; do
 				./ffconvert.pe "$f/$pcf"
 				# 1. fontforge writes a silly filename
 				# 2. our crappy machinery copes only
-				#  with BDFs from pcf2bdf, not from
-				#  fontforge
-				bdftopcf <"$f/$pcf".BDF*.bdf |pcf2bdf >$out
+				#  with BDFs all of whose chars have
+				#  the bbox of the font
+				./bdfnorm <"$f/$pcf".BDF*.bdf >$out
 			else
 				echo >&2 "cannot make $out!"
 				exit 1